During the 1980s, black metal was only a loose term used to describe the few extreme metal bands who shared a unique style such as demonic growls, high-pitched guitar tones, raw recording, anti-Christianity and Satanic lyrics, although most of the “first wave” bands used Satanism as a way to shock values.
Norway was the perfect place to embrace the darkness of such a style; the early Norwegian black metal scene was a subculture during the early 1990´s based around heavy music and seen by many as a cult- “The Black Circle”. This “cult” was formed essentially by young people and they gathered at the record shop Helvete (“Hell”) in Oslo. For becoming a cult the black metal scene in Norway began to be a target of controversy due to the strong anti-Christian beliefs, evil lyrics and due to some events that marked the “fight” against Christian religion like burning churches, but that’s a matter I won’t discuss.
Black metal was growing stronger in Norway and during 1990-1992, Norwegian artists influenced by the “first wave” of black metal began to construct a new style of playing and instead of playing two and three strings powerchords, they used all the strings and more notes to play full chords. Visually, the satanic themes of their songs was transpired by corpsepaint, and the concerts were full of a dark atmosphere, the music was the fuel to the satanic ritual in stage. This was the beginning of a new black metal style and the beginning of the “second wave” of this music movement that turned out to be the pure Norwegian black metal.
It was during that time that Carpathian Forest was born with origin in Jaeren, Rogaland, Kristiansand, previously known as “Enthrone”, and formed by Roger Rasmussen (Nattefrost/Lord Nosferatu) and Nordavind (Lord Karnstein) in December 1990 being one the first bands to step in the Norwegian black metal scene. They emerged seriously in 1992 with the self-release of their second demo “Bloodlust and Perversion” with Nattefrost on vocals, keyboards and bass, Nordavind with the guitars, bass and keyboards and Lord Blackmangler on drums. Influenced by “nasty, ugly, grim and repulsive shit” with a Satanic, anti-Christian, Sadomasochism and evil themed message Carpathian Forest unleashed hell in a dark culture and entered in the story of the Norwegian black metal with pure evil.
Carpathian Forest second demo “Bloodlust and Perversion” is a five track work of really heavy ambiance and dark atmosphere, composed with an instrumental intro and an instrumental outro of evil melodies with the obscure feeling inherent in black metal and with three more songs with a very raw sound that brings the old school to its splendor and fits perfectly the underground movement of that time, in other words “Bloodlust and Perversion” is the perfect example of Norwegian black metal with “shrieked” vocals, simple and heavy riffs, a certain dark melodic type of extreme music with a devilish environment.
By Pedro Ribeiro: With love for beer... sorry, music from an early age, he studied piano and singing from 7 to 14 years, then, devoted himself to the study of the guitar for 5 years. visit our reviews page.
1. Through the Black Veil of Burgo Pass
2. Bloodlust and Perversion
3. Return of the Freezing Winds
4. The Woods of Wallachia
5. Wings over the Mountain of Sighisoara
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